The Greater Newark Conservancy is a private, non-profit environmental and horticultural agency dedicated to the revitalization of Newark. Operating since 1987, the Greater Newark Conservancy's mission is to educate, train and support communities in creating environmentally safe neighborhoods through grassroots education and training, community organizing, preservation, and improvement of open space, revitalization and beautification, job training and economic development. The guiding principle is to encourage and highlight community empowerment, pride and self-sufficiency.